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up next, tennis channel founder steve bellamy. steve bellamy is a media entrepreneur who founded the tennis channel in 2003 and now serves as the ceo of the 2-year- old ski channel, which just announced a film series. the first is called "the story" and includes olympic heroes. here are some scenes. >> i do not want to look back -- i want to look back on my life and i do not want to have any regrets. >> i stand up on the podium and have a metal. i cried for hours. >> if you have an open mind you can question anything you want. >> i ended up breaking every bone. >> a 250 foot cliff. i was just having fun. >> your life and your friends -- you develop close bonds. >> you get out and do it. you can do anything you put your mind to. tavis: three times in that package i found myself saying "do not try this at home." that sounds interesting but extreme. what is driving americans with regard to outdoor sports and extreme sports? another are different things, but they are the boom these days. >> outdoor sports is interesting. i have gotten
up next, tennis channel founder steve bellamy. steve bellamy is a media entrepreneur who founded the tennis channel in 2003 and now serves as the ceo of the 2-year- old ski channel, which just announced a film series. the first is called "the story" and includes olympic heroes. here are some scenes. >> i do not want to look back -- i want to look back on my life and i do not want to have any regrets. >> i stand up on the podium and have a metal. i cried for hours. >>...
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. >> reporter: steve bump has run a fireplace business in the des moines suburbs for 38 years, he knows fall is when people think about snuggling up to a warm fire, and more important for him, when they make buying decisions. >> if i'm selling romance and entertainment with my product, and i am, i don't want that customer to have all these negative thoughts in their mind about this ad that preceded me. >> reporter: bump says superpac- funded political ads are clogging up the airwaves. those campaign ads push his commercials off primetime and all his ads now cost 25% more. >> i'm probably seeing no less than 30 to 50 negative ads between 6:00 and... and 10:00, and that's watching the same channel. >> reporter: at oktoberfest in amana, iowa, tina wing has already heard too much from both sides. the campaigns also must contend with a sense of election fatigue from voters. >> i think i get calls every single day from every state across the nation. i feel like there is a voting booth for a reason, that its my business and nobody else's. >> reporter: but it won't keep the campaigns from tryin
. >> reporter: steve bump has run a fireplace business in the des moines suburbs for 38 years, he knows fall is when people think about snuggling up to a warm fire, and more important for him, when they make buying decisions. >> if i'm selling romance and entertainment with my product, and i am, i don't want that customer to have all these negative thoughts in their mind about this ad that preceded me. >> reporter: bump says superpac- funded political ads are clogging up the...
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our correspondent, steve kingston, joins me from washington. one down, two to go, then, steve? >> where we are now, the votes are being counted in all three states. polls have just closed in wisconsin and the situation is this, the u.s. television networks based on results coming in, based on their own exit polling data, are predicting mitt romney will win tonight in maryland and here in washington, d.c. and on the biggest prize of the night, wisconsin, the agricultural, industrial state in the american heartland, that's really been fought over by mitt romney and rick santorum, they're not issuing a firm projection yet, the u.s. networks, but exit polling data puts mitt romney ahead. the exit poll from cnn has mitt romney on imagery -- 43% in wisconsin and rick santorum on 35. that exit poll is close enough for the networks not to project a firm result there. >> we still somewhere away from an outright win for romney because he can't secure the nomination on these three primaries, can he? >> no, he can't. the winning line, in terms of the delegate total someone would need to se
our correspondent, steve kingston, joins me from washington. one down, two to go, then, steve? >> where we are now, the votes are being counted in all three states. polls have just closed in wisconsin and the situation is this, the u.s. television networks based on results coming in, based on their own exit polling data, are predicting mitt romney will win tonight in maryland and here in washington, d.c. and on the biggest prize of the night, wisconsin, the agricultural, industrial state...
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steve, what did you make of the speech? >> that was new to gingrich in a 15-minute microcosm. he spoke half as long as mitt romney appeared it was classic newt gingrich, passionate, energetic, a bit of focus, a bit rambling. he said he was winging it because his teleprompter was not working. blue-collar voters love this about him. he never gives up. he made the point that he came back from the dead twice in this race already appeared but he is against the money machine. mitt romney won handsomely in florida. it will be an uphill battle for newt gingrich. but i think the key point, three of them, number one, he is staying in the race. we will contest every place, says newt gingrich. 46 states left to go. no. 2, he is portraying himself as the only alternative to mitt romney. he says it is a straight two-man race now. he really says that he can win through people power. that people will follow him. yet on facebook and twitter and spread the gingrich gospel. he thinks that he can beat the romney millions. >> mitt romney winning the republican primary in florida by 47% of the vote
steve, what did you make of the speech? >> that was new to gingrich in a 15-minute microcosm. he spoke half as long as mitt romney appeared it was classic newt gingrich, passionate, energetic, a bit of focus, a bit rambling. he said he was winging it because his teleprompter was not working. blue-collar voters love this about him. he never gives up. he made the point that he came back from the dead twice in this race already appeared but he is against the money machine. mitt romney won...
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steve jobs came in. he came up with the creative genius. he came up with the new products, and you know a dozen years later, the company is on top of the world. so, that's kind of a wonderful thing about our system, that people can get up off the floor and rise to the top again. >> brown: richard sylla and ted schadler, that's thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. >> pleasure. >> ifill: now, the second in a pair of stories about efforts to keep students from losing ground over the summer. last night, we looked at a rhode island school district's attempts to close the achievement gap between rich and poor. tonight we head across the country to seattle. a nonprofit group there runs a year-round program which aims even higher-- to college graduation. our report is part of our "american graduate" series, and we turn again to hari sreenivasan. >> as summer draws to close in a seattle, roughly 50,000 k through 12 students across the city are ending vacations and preparing to head back into classrooms but for 13-year-old mira cornelius mccl
steve jobs came in. he came up with the creative genius. he came up with the new products, and you know a dozen years later, the company is on top of the world. so, that's kind of a wonderful thing about our system, that people can get up off the floor and rise to the top again. >> brown: richard sylla and ted schadler, that's thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. >> pleasure. >> ifill: now, the second in a pair of stories about efforts to keep students from...
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i mean steve forbes did but-- . >> woodruff: but again you're referring to the tax return. >> ed tax returns, i just think it's all of a piece and i just think it's a problem. mitt romney should not be on the defensive, he's on its defensive. >> the response on bain in particular is easy but it's not politically popular, which is bain invested in companies that added jobs and expanded, invested in companies that reduced labor costs, by outsourcing, both domestic and international and invested in companies that closed and fired a lot of people. you know, that if you are disturbed by that, are you disturbed by modern capitalism. mitt romney was not a crooked businessman, he was-- this was the system that we have in many ways. but that's a tough case for any presidential candidate to make. its-- capital civil a harsh system. the problem is there are just no other good alternatives. >> what about mark's point that not releasing the returns is going to continue to be an issue? >> well, i think there is a challenge here that it's proof that the, once again that the very rich are not like y
i mean steve forbes did but-- . >> woodruff: but again you're referring to the tax return. >> ed tax returns, i just think it's all of a piece and i just think it's a problem. mitt romney should not be on the defensive, he's on its defensive. >> the response on bain in particular is easy but it's not politically popular, which is bain invested in companies that added jobs and expanded, invested in companies that reduced labor costs, by outsourcing, both domestic and...
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chair steve king, another longtime friend and mentor, officially nominated ryan last night. he says that a secret to ryan's success has been a true passion and focus on an area that others often find arcane: the federal budget. >> has had plenty of opportunities for leadership postings. but he would say "i'm not sure it's for me, that's not my issue. so he stuck with his budget ideas-- despite having been offered leadership positions. and then, boom!, they said "you're the chairman of the budget committee." >> brown: he has a reputation as a policy wonk. is that deserved? >> it's earned. ( laughs ) this is a guy who goes to sleep in his office every night when he's there, reading budgets. >> brown: really? >> that's what he does. and he doesn't fall asleep real fast. he reads it. >> brown: in the past several years, ryan's influence as an intellectual leader has grown dramatically and his proposed prescriptions for spending cuts, lower taxes, and changes to medicare and other entitlement programs have drawn passionate praise and equally passionate criticism. in choosing ryan
chair steve king, another longtime friend and mentor, officially nominated ryan last night. he says that a secret to ryan's success has been a true passion and focus on an area that others often find arcane: the federal budget. >> has had plenty of opportunities for leadership postings. but he would say "i'm not sure it's for me, that's not my issue. so he stuck with his budget ideas-- despite having been offered leadership positions. and then, boom!, they said "you're the...